On Fri, 2011-11-11 at 19:39 +0000, Martin Gregorie wrote: > I'm able to use any of my serial ports (/dev/ttyS[0-5]) from a Wine > application without needing any symlinks: the application can find them > directly, but the same application has never been able to find a known > good USB serial adapter (supplied by pfranc some time back and used > successfully with the Linux programs kermit and minicom) but, of course, > ymmv. > I should have added that serial adapter cards are available and not particularly expensive: if you have an unused adapter slot you may be better off fitting one of those instead of buying a USB adapter. Martin
